The Apple Component AV Cable is without doubt the worst product ever designed by Apple. At $49.00, it’s a cable that connects your iPhone or iPod to a television. Here’s a link. With the release of the iPhone, older AV cables no longer are able to work with it, so you are forced to buy this cable. The Apple store describes the cable as follows:
Easily connect your iPod or iPhone to the component video inputs on a TV. The cable also features audio and USB connectors, and a USB Power Adapter is included in the box.
The design team at Apple definitely made it look cool, with polished aluminum cylinders at the connectors. While it is easy to attached, the description fails to mention that it’s impossible to grip them when you want to detach the cable from your television. I’ve actually ruined the AV ports of two televisions. The problem is not just that they are impossible to grasp; the connection is also too tight. Even if you are able to grasp it, using pliers, you’ll damage your television yanking the thing out.
This is definitely an example of form over function. Not only do they force you to buy a special chord, the chord itself is essentially unusable.
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According to me Macintosh IIvi is a worst product I ever use. Originally introduced in 1992 as a replacement for the popular Macintosh IIci, the IIvi and IIvx featured a new case design and an internal CD-ROM drive. Unfortunately, the IIvi was powered by a measly 16MHz 68030 CPU, while the IIvx connected a 32MHz 68030 to a 16 MHz bus; both were slower than the three-years-older, 25MHz IIci.
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